Vietnam War Bibliography:

Miscellaneous

Dick Adair, foreword by Peter Arnett,
Dick Adair's Saigon: Sketches
and Words from the Artist's Journal. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill,
1971. 144 pp. Looking more at the Vietnamese than at the Americans.

William T. Allison,
"War For Sale: The Black Market, Currency Manipulation and Corruption in the American War in Vietnam." War
and Society 21:2 (October 2003).

Gar Alperovitz,
Who We Are. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

(Harry S. Ashmore, ed.?),
Vietnam: Matters for the Agenda. Center Occasional Papers, Volume 1,
number 4. Santa Barbara, CA: Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, June 1968. 64 pp. A lot of this is proposals for possible ways of
negotiating an end to the war, including "The Third Solution: A Neutral Coalition: A Discussion with
Thich Nhan Hanh" (pp. 6-11). The text has
been placed online in the
Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Robert B. Asprey,
War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History,
2 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1975. 1475 pp. About 500 pages of volume
2 are devoted to the First and Second Indochina Wars.

Philip D. Beidler,
Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2004. 224 pp. Beidler commanded an armored cavalry platoon.

J. Bowyer Bell,
Dragonwars: Armed Struggle and the Conventions of Modern War. New Brunswick,
NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999. 455 pp. Examples from the American involvement in
Lebanon, Central America, Greece, and Vietnam.

David A. Biggs,
"Between the Rivers and Tides: A Hydraulic History of the Mekong Delta,
1820-1975." Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of Washington,
2004. xi, 423 pp. AAT 3131125. The full text is available online
if you are browsing the Internet from an institution,
such as Clemson University, that has
a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."

David A. Biggs,
Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2010. xviii, 300 pp.

Georges Boudarel,
Autobiographie. Paris: Jacques Bertoin, 1991.
436 pp. Boudarel, a Frenchman, joined the Viet Minh in 1950 and remained
until 1964. This naturally inspired considerable outrage in France; see books by
Charuel and Daoudal, below.

Ray Bows,
Vietnam Military Lore: Legends, Shadows and Heroes.
Hanover, MA: Bows and Sons, 1998. 1180 pp. Extensively researched, mostly
from interviews (though to some extent from documents), this book seems
intended mainly for browsing. The titles of the 53 chapters are seldom
very informative, so it would be difficult to pick out the chapters dealing
with a particular type of subject, but reading at random, one finds an
enormous range of interesting items. There is a pretty good index (32 pp.),
so you can find particular items by looking up a name or an incident. Bows
himself served in the 25th Infantry Division, 1968-69; most of this book
deals with earlier periods of the war.

T. Louise Brown,
War and Aftermath in Vietnam. New York: Routledge,
1991.

Weldon A. Brown,
The Last Chopper: The Denoument of the American
Role in Vietnam, 1963-1975. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1976.

B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley,
Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation
Was Robbed of its Heroes and its History. Dallas: Verity Press, 1998.
xxvii, 692 pp. What has gotten the most attention has been Burkett's exposure
of cases in which people have falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam,
or in which actual Vietnam veterans have inflated their records, often
claiming medals they never earned. But he is generally critical of ideas
that he feels demean Vietnam veterans and treat them as victims rather
than heroes, including exaggerated reports about Agent Orange, post-traumatic
stress disorder, suicide among veterans, etc.

David Chananie,
Not Yet at Ease: Photographs of America's Continuing Engagement
with the Vietnam War. Capturelife, 2002. 160 pp. Some photographs taken during the
war, some after the war (notably at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.).

Denise Chong,
The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the
Photograph, and the Vietnam War. New York: Viking, 2000.
368 pp. Kim Phuc was the girl who was photographed, naked with napalm
burns on her skin, running from her village in 1972.

Judith Lee Clavir,
"Better Conquer Hearts than Citadels: A Study in
the Sociology of Culture and Social Change in Viet Nam." Ph.D. dissertation,
Sociology, University of Toronto, 1975. Looks at the Vietnamese Revolution
in the light of traditional ideas about the Mandate of Heaven and the Will of the People.

Geoffrey Clifford (photography) and John Balaban (text),
Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew. San Francisco: Chronicle Books,
1989. 144 pp. The photos, mostly in gorgeous color, were almost all taken in the 1980s.

Tom Corey, Frederick Downs, Patrick Duncan, Marsha Four, and Russ Thurman,
"The Warrior's Story:
Love the Soldier, Hate the War", in
The VVA Veteran,
August/September 2000. [I believe articles only stay online for two years.]
Edited transcript of a panel session at an April 6-8, 2000, symposium "Rendezvous
with War," sponsored by Vietnam Veterans of America and the College of William and Mary. There
are brief introductory remarks by moderator James Griffin.

Victor J. Croizat,
The Development of the Plain of Reeds: Some Politico-Military
Implications. Santa Monica: Rand, 1969. P-3976. 93 pp.

Jean-Pierre Debris and André Menras,
Rescapés des bagnes
de Saigon: nous accusons. Paris: Éditeurs Français Réunis,
1973. 224 pp. Two Frenchmen who publicly demonstrated in favor of the NLF
in Saigon in 1970, and suffered prolonged imprisonment as a result.

David Dellinger,
Vietnam Revisited: From Covert Action to Invasion
to Reconstruction. Boston: South End Press, 1986. vi, 232 pp. Dellinger, a pacifist,
was one of the important leaders of the anti-war movement.

Dorothy Fall,
Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books, 2006. 336 pp. Bernard Fall's widow wrote this biography,
and included interesting information
on issues such as the FBI's suspicion of, and surveillance of, Fall in the early 1960s.

Ann Finkbeiner
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite. New
York: Viking (Penguin), 2006. xxx, 304 pp. A group of top-grade scientists, mainly physicists, who
provided advice to the US goverment. Played an important role in the development of sensor systems.

William L. Griffen and John Marciano,
Lessons of the Vietnam War:
A Critical Examination of School Texts and an Interpretive Comparative
History Utilizing the Pentagon Papers and Other Documents. Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1979.

James Hamilton-Paterson,
The Greedy War. New York: McKay, 1972. 278 pp.
(Slightly revised version of A Very Personal War: The Story of Cornelius Hawkridge, London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. 284 pp.) The story of Cornelius Hawkridge, who worked in Vietnam
in 1966 in the administration of refugee camps in Qui Nhon, which were
crippled by the theft of most of their operating funds and supplies; and
in 1967 trying, with minimal success, to hold down the level of theft at
two civilian trucking firms hauling US military supplies and equipment
in the Saigon area. He believes that theft, corruption, the currency black
market, etc., were siphoning off billions of dollars of US funds in Indochina.
(See also Hawkridge's article in Life, Aug. 1, 1969.)

Charles Hirschman, Samuel Preston, and Vu Manh Loi,
"Vietnamese Casualties
during the American War: A New Estimate," Population and Development
Review, 21:4 (December 1995), pp. 783-812. The estimate of 966,000
deaths (plus or minus 175,000) looked low to me, so I took a brief look at the article. The study
was based on questioning 804 adults, half urban and half rural, in a few areas of Vietnam
in 1991. People were asked whether their parents and siblings were still alive, and if not, when
and how had they died. When extrapolating from these results, the authors do not appear to have made
any effort to deal with problems such as (a) that asking people about their parents will give no
data about members of the previous generation who were killed before they were able to have children,
and (b) that the asking people about the fate of their siblings and parents will give no data about
families that were wiped out in the war. Given this, the statement of the authors (p. 797) that "our
estimates of mortality are likely to be biased downward" seems an understatement.

Indo-China. Kegan Paul, 2006 (forthcoming). 536 pp. Distributed
in the United States by Columbia University Press.
A reference work, written during World War II by the Naval
Intelligence Division of the British Admiralty.

Olov R.T. Janse,
The Peoples of French Indochina. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution, 1944. iv, 28 pp., plus extensive illustations. War Background Studies, No. 19.
The text has been placed online at the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the
Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University,
in 3 sections:
front matter
and pp. 1-14 (possibly incomplete; I suspect the original had a table of contents, and I don't
see one here),
pp. 15-28.

R.L. Turkoly-Joczik,
"The Military Role of Asian Ethnic Minorities in
the Second Indochina War, 1959-1975". Doctoral dissertation, University
of Wales, Aberstwyth, United Kingdom, 1986.

Kregg P.J. Jorgenson,
Very Crazy, G.I. Strange but True Stories
of the Vietnam War. New York: Ballantine, 2001. Some, but apparently
not all, of this material had appeared in the preceding item.

Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet and David G. Marr, eds.,
Beyond Hanoi: Local Government in Vietnam. Singapore: ISEAS, 2004.
xii, 359 pp. Devoted mostly to the postwar situation, but includes some discussion of pre-war
and wartime local government.

Wendy Wilder Larsen and Tran Thi Nga,
Shallow Graves: Two Women and
Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1986. Poetry by an American woman
who went to Saigon in 1970 to join her journalist husband, and a local
woman who worked in her husband's office.

Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman,
The Eagle Mutiny. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
304 pp. The hijacking of an American ship to Cambodia in 1970 by two crew members.

Nancy E. Lynch,
Vietnam Mailbag: Voice from the War: 1968-1972. Bethel, Delaware: Broad Creek Books, 2008. x, 446 pp. From 1968 to 1972,
Nancy Lynch, a reporter, had a column "Nancy's Vietnam Mailbag" in the Morning News of Wilmington, Delaware (and perhaps
another newspaper published by the News-Journal Corporation?), in which she published letters sent by soldiers from Delaware who
were serving in Vietnam. Part I (pp. 1-349) of this lavishly illustrated volume contains texts of some letters, and brief
excerpts from others, with commentary by Lynch. Part II (pp. 351-427) contains recent interviews with a dozen men.

Joseph E. McCarthy,
Illusion of Power: American Policy Toward Vietnam,
1954-1966. New York: Carlton, 1967. McCarthy, a US Army Lt. Col. when
he wrote this, had been a military advisor in Vietnam, 1956-57. He says
very little about events after 1963.

Mary McCarthy,
The Seventeenth Degree. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1974. A collection of five pieces, some previously published
elsewhere: "How it Went", "Vietnam", "Hanoi", "Medina", and "Sons of the
Morning" (a negative review of David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest).

Lt. Col. Jerry L. McKain,
"Schilling
Manor." Military Review, November 1971 (vol. LI, no. 11), pp. 24-29. The Army in 1966 began housing the families of men serving overseas (all or most
in Vietnam) on a former Air Force base in Kansas. [See also Moreau, below.]

Robert S. McKelvey,
A Gift of Barbed Wire: America's Allies Abandoned in South Vietnam.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. 280 pp.

Robert S. McNamara, James Blight, Robert Brigham, Thomas Beirsteker,
and Col. Herbert Schandler,
Argument without End: In Search of Answers
to the Vietnam Tragedy. New York: Public Affairs, 1999. xxiii, 479
pp. Includes transcripts of discussions with Vietnamese in Hanoi.

Edwin Anton Martini III,
"Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
AAT 3128874. xiii, 531 pp. Full
text available online.

Edwin E. Martini,
Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000. University of Massachusetts Press,
2007. A mixture of diplomatic and cultural history, this study
looks at American policy toward Vietnam, and representations of Vietnam in American culture (including
discussions of the MIA issue, and movies about the war), in the years after 1975.

Mathematical models of warfare: Rand Corporation Studies. The Rand (RAND) Corporation, a "think tank" financed by the U.S. military,
published a variety of studies involving mathematical modeling of warfare. Those based on the Lanchester equations
tended to be fairly abstract. Those using the FAST-VAL model often compared the model's predictions with
actual combat experiences of U.S. Marines in I Corps. Most Rand publications can be purchased in hard copy through the
RAND Corporation online bookstore, but many also can be read
online for free.

FAST-VAL (Forward Air Strike Evaluation Model). Rand published 18 studies involving this model, which despite
its name actually considered the effect of ground weaponry, not just air power. A few appeared between 1966
and 1970, but most were dated November 1971. Most were classified "Secret," but some were "Confidential" or unclassified. Some or
all of the classified ones were declassified in 1991. Some but not all are available online. Some that formerly were
available have been withdrawn.

Marvin B. Schaffer,
Application of Lanchester Theory
to Insurgency Problems. RM-5665-PR. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1976. xiv, 35 pp. This
is a sanitized version, issued in 1976, of a classified publication originally issued in February 1969. But
the cover and title page give only the date February 1969, with no indication that this is actually
a different version of the paper, issued in 1976.

Richard A. Melanson,
Writing History and Making Policy: The Cold
War, Vietnam, and Revisionism (vol. VI in the series American Values
Projected Abroad). Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.

Jeffrey S. Milstein,
Dynamics of the Vietnam War: A Quantitative
Analysis and Predictive Computer Simulation. Ohio State University
Press, 1974. xv, 274 pp. The full text
has been placed online by Ohio State University Press.

Donna Moreau,
Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2005. 336 pp. Schilling Air Force Base, in Salina, Kansas, was closed as a
base in 1964. It was then converted into a residence for the families of U.S. military
personnel serving in Vietnam. [See also McKain, above.]

Ziad Obermeyer, Christopher J.L. Murray, and Emmanuela Gakidou,
"Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey
programme." BMJ [British Medical Journal], 19 June 2008. Estimates of the deaths tolls from
war in various countries from household surveys conducted 2002-3, asking people about deaths of their
siblings. Unlike Hirschman et al. (above), these authors attempted to compensate, in extrpolating from their
data, for the fact that people who were themselves dead by the time of the survey would have been unable to
report the deaths of their siblings. This was surely part of the reason they got a much higher estimate of
war-related deaths in Vietnam: 3,812,000 deathsbetween 1955 and 2002. The uncertainty of this estimate was
fairly wide; the authors said they had a 95% confidence of the number being between 2,207,000 and 5,942,000.
The text is online for some users.

Péninsule. Journal published twice a year since 1980,
at the Sorbonne in Paris,
dealing mostly with Indochina, though to some extent it also covers
other parts of Southeast Asia. Formerly
Bulletin des Amis du Royaume Lao (1970-1975) and
Présence Indochinoise (1978-1979). Web site Péninsule.

Clyde E. Pettit,
The Experts: 100 Years of Blunder in Indochina.
Lyle Stuart, 1975. Author was on the staff of the US Senate.

"Programs of Assistance in South Vietnam, Operated and Supported by US Nonprofit
Organizations." New York: Technical Assistance Information Clearing House (TAICH), October
1966. 18 pp. The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project
at Texas Tech University.

Ronald Jay Rexilius,
"Americans Without Dog Tags: United States Civilians in the Vietnam
War, 1950-1975." Ph.D. dissertation, History, University of Nebraska
at Lincoln, 2000. 626 pp. AAT 9977015. The full text is available
online if you are browsing the Internet from an institution,
such as Clemson University, that has
a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."

Chris Rohlfs,
"Essays Measuring Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs and Other Human Costs of War in World War II and Vietnam." Ph.D.
dissertation, Economics, University of Chicago, 2006.

Josef W. Rokus,
The Professionals: History of the Phu Lam, Vietnam U.S. Army
Communications Base. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002. 523 pp.
The Phu Lam communications facility, on Highway 4 on the western
edge of Saigon, was established early in 1962, and eventually
grew to a very large size. All communications equipment was
stripped out before it was handed to the ARVN approximately
September 1972. Rockus had been assistant operations officer
1967-1968. Partly a narrative history, partly oral history.

Sam Sarkesian,
Unconventional Conflicts in a New Security Era: Lessons
from Malaya and Vietnam. Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1993. xii, 225 pp. The full text is available online
to paid subscribers of Questia.

Christina Schwenkel,
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2009. xiii, 264 pp.

Paul A. Scipione,
M.A.R.S. Calling back to 'The World': A History
of Military Affiliate Radio Systems Operations during the Vietnam War.
Kalamazoo: Center for the Study of the Vietnam War, 1994. Large portions
of this book are short accounts of particular incidents, by personnel who
participated in the system, which allowed soldiers in Vietnam to talk with
their families by a radio hookup that went from M.A.R.S. stations in Vietnam,
to "Ham" radio operators in the United States, who then patched the calls to local phone lines.

Neil Sheehan,
After the War was Over: Hanoi and Saigon. New York:
Random House 1992. 131pp. This book contains material from interviews with
Vietnamese who played crucial roles in the war.

General Maxwell Taylor,
Responsibility and Response. New York:
Harper & Row, 1967. xi, 84 pp. Lectures, some dealing with Vietnam, that General
Taylor gave at Lehigh University in 1966.

W. Scott Thompson and Donaldson D. Frizzell, eds.,
The Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Crane, Russak & Company, 1977. xi, 288 pp. Much of the volume is made up
of transcripts from conferences sponsored by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in 1973 and 1974. Hawkish
in tone.

Jonathan Tran,
The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory: Time and Eternity in the Far Country. Wiley-Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons), forthcoming 2010.

Edmund F. Wehrle,
"'Reprehensible Repercussions': The AFL-CIO, Free
Trade Unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975." Ph.D. dissertation, University
of Maryland at College Park, 1998. Deals with the AFL-CIO's support for
US policy in Vietnam, and for Tran Quoc Buu's Vietnamese Confederation
of Labor. 371 pp. DA 9836500.

Edmund F. Wehrle,
Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2005. viii, 304 pp. Based on the dissertation above.

Jac Weller,
Fire and Movement: Bargain-Basement Warfare in the Far
East. Discusses several guerrilla wars in Asia, not just Vietnam, and
the armies that have been involved in those wars.

Richard West,
War and Peace in Vietnam. London: Sinclair-Stevenson,
1995. 365 pp. West a British journalist, endorses the American
war effort, which he covered from 1965 onward. The first half of
the book deals mostly with Vietnam, some Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, 1965-75.
The second half is on post-1975 issues.

The Vietnam War and American Culture; Legacies of the War

Gordon Arnold,
The Afterlife of America's War in Vietnam: Changing Visions in Politics and on Screen. Jefferson,
North Carolina: McFarland, 2006.

Milton J. Bates, The Wars we Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and
Storytelling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Keith Beattie, The Scar that Binds: American Culture and the Vietnam
War. New York: NYU Press, 1998. x, 230 pp.

Michael Bibby, ed.,
The Vietnam War and Postmodernity.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. 248 pp.

Major Michael J. Brady,
"The Army and the Strategic Military Legacy of Vietnam." Thesis, Master of Military Art and Science,
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1990. ix, 322 pp. The text is online in the
Combined Arms Research Library of the
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Jeffrey Thomas Brierton,
"War on Two Fronts: Vietnam and the Heartland: A Study of the Effects
of the Vietnam War on an American Community." Ph.D. dissertation,
History, Loyola University of Chicago, 2002. 270 pp. AAT 3056408.
Looks at Waukegan, Illinois.

Robert Buzzanco,
Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life.
Malden MA: Blackwell, 1999. 276 pp.

Walter H. Capps,
The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1982. Short and carelessly written.

Kenneth B. Cunningham,
"Losing hearts and minds: The cultural mediation of the Vietnam War
Experience in America." Ph.D. dissertation, Sociology, City
University of New York, 2000. AAT 9969686. How the war is
remembered and interpreted.

Gerald J. DeGroot,
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2008. xi, 508 pp. DeGroot is hostile to leftist political movements.

Charles R. Grey,
"Four Vietnams: Conflicting visions of the Indochina conflict in American culture." Ph.D. dissertation,
English, Florida State University, 2005. iv, 269 pp. AAT 3198219.
The full text is available online if you are
browsing the Internet from an institution,
such as Clemson University, that has
a subscription to ProQuest "Dissertations and Theses: Full Text."

Patrick Hagopian,
The Vietnam War in American Memory: Veterans, Memorials, and the Politics of Healing. Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xv, 553 pp.

Andrew J. Huebner,
The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2008. x, 369 pp.

Arnold R. Isaacs,
Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xii, 236 pp. The cultural
battle within the United States over the meaning of Vietnam.

Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin,
America Divided: The Civil War
of the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
368 pp.

Susan Jeffords,
The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the
Vietnam War. Bloomington: Indiana University press, 1989.

Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, eds.,
Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 334 pp.

Jerry Lembcke,
The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of
Vietnam. New York: NYU Press, 1998. xi, 216 pp. Argues that stories of hostility
to soldiers returning from Vietnam have been seriously exaggerated. But
the impression I get, glancing through the book, is that Lembcke is exaggerating
his argument on the other side.

Lloyd B. Lewis,
The Tainted War: Culture and Identity in Vietnam
War Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985. 193 pp. Analyzes nineteen
accounts by men who served in Vietnam.

Ron Robin,
The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the
Military-Industrial Complex. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2001. xvi, 277 pp. A bitter critique of the role of American
behavioral scientists (mostly psychologists, sociologists,
and political scientists) in the Cold War. Charges that many of
these people supported America's Cold-War hostilities in a very
simple-minded fashion. Greatest emphasis on the Korean War, but also
significant attention to Vietnam.

Wilbur J. Scott,
The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans Since the War. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993. Republished, with a new
afterword by the author, as
vietnam Veterans Since the War: The Politics of PTSD, Agent Orange, and the National Memorial. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Robert D. Schulzinger,
A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pp.

William V. Spanos,
America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 287 pp. Spanos
(an English professor) traces U.S. actions in Vietnam to a tradition of
imperialist violence going back to the Roman Empire. Written in dense
postmodernist jargon; I have not read enough of it to judge whether it says anything worthwhile.

Marita Sturken,
Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic,
and the Politics of Remembering. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1997. x, 358 pp. Looks particularly at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial ("The Wall") and at the way the war has been
reflected in photographs and films.

Robert Timberg,
"The Vietnam Fault Line." Naval History, August 1996, pp. 15-19.
Timberg, Annapolis '64, Marine Veteran of Vietnam, and in 1996
deputy chief of the Baltimore Sun's Washington Bureau, gave this
talk at Annapolis about the divide between Vietnam veterans and
those who did not serve.

Robert K. Brigham,
Is Iraq Another Vietnam? New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xv, 207 pp. I don't know whether any
modifications have been made in the paperback edition, Iraq, Vietnam, and the Limits of American
Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

Economic Issues

Kristin L. Ahlberg,
Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2010. xiv, 260 pp. The chapter
on the way the P.L. 480 program was used to support the Vietnam War is pp. 175-206.

William Allison,
"War for Sale: The Black Market, Currency Manipulation and Corruption in the
American War in Vietnam." War & Society, 21 (October 2003), pp. 135-64.

Anthony S. Campagna,
The Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War.
New York: Praeger, 1991. The full text is available online
to paid subscribers of Questia.

Christopher Nigel Caton,
"The Impact of the War in Vietnam on the U.S.
Economy." Ph.D. dissertation, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1974. 241 pp. 75-14549.

David Ekbladh,
The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2010. 404 pp. Chapter 6, "A TVA on the Mekong: Modernization at War in Southeast
Asia, 1960-1973" (pp. 190-225), might be interesting.

Thomas Riddell,
"A Political Economy of the American War in Indochina:
Its Costs and Consequences". Ph.D. dissertation: American University, 1975.

Charles H. Rieper,
"The Limits Reached: How International Monetary Policy,
Domestic Policy, European Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War Converged in the
1960s." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1995. DA 9612265.

Louis Wesseling,
Fuelling the War: Revealing an Oil Company's Role
in Vietnam. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2000. viii,
207 pp. Wesseling was head of Shell's Vietnamese operations 1972-1974.
Discussion of the background of the war is often spectacularly inaccurate;
one hopes that what Wesseling says about his own experiences, and oil,
is more reliable.